Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just that I 've found out a bit more about our friend Martin 's business dealings , and , more importantly , who he 's dealing with . |
| 2 | The problem is that I want to start up a shareware library , but I have no idea of how to obtain the shareware titles . |
| 3 | That is , under no circumstances must I mention to anyone that I have turned down an invitation to return to Blighty . |
| 4 | Luckily this has n't hurt my fish , but the reason for the purchase in the first place is that I plan to set up a marine tank in the near future and I wanted to check my local tapwater . |
| 5 | The guttering that she had bodged up a few months previously had come loose again . |
| 6 | As the moist heat of the mouth working at her breast penetrated the soft material of her shirt , that pang repeated itself , over and over again , so that she had to bite back a whimper . |
| 7 | It was clear that she had picked up a lot from the Prince 's own style , especially the self-deprecating wit . |
| 8 | It did n't seem at all surprising that she 'd slowed down a little . |
| 9 | Cara nodded , and elatedly went on to tell them that she had heard , only that morning when she 'd looked in at her office to check her post before driving up to Cheltenham , that she 'd pulled off an interview with none other than Vendelin Gajdusek . |
| 10 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 11 | The stages were so enormous — about 60 feet across — that you had to poke out a bit of noise just to make yourself heard . |
| 12 | You must tell them that you want to pick up a thirty five percent of the first year 's payment . |
| 13 | Oh dear , the thing is , as , as far as I can remember I ca n't find it in any of the two books that I 've got out at the moment , it 's not under , but I vaguely remember that you have to dig down a certain . |
| 14 | But although we found little , report had magnified our findings in no ordinary degree and we afterwards learnt that it had gone over the country around that we had dug up a great treasure of gold . |
| 15 | He denounced function as an irrelevance and said that we needed to set up a structure . |
| 16 | Because of socialisation it is only rarely that we have to puzzle out a meaning for an action which we come across in our normal social encounters — most actions seem perfectly intelligible to us the moment they occur — because we have learnt the rules by which others are playing the ‘ game ’ . |
| 17 | Er looking at the rest of the P and L , you will see that we have split out a profit on sale of fixed assets which is our Lakeside erm Capelat and the Capco shares er which is why the corporate expenses for this other income has turned a way round , it 's gon na be negative nowadays , so we thought it 'd look a little silly saying other income less expenses . |
| 18 | He will be glad to know that we have set up a noise review working party and that one of the issues that it has been considering is traffic noise and how to deal with it more effectively . |
| 19 | The darkness was almost complete now ; she could only see the faintest outline of his features , enough to know that they 'd taken on a hard , determined cast . |
| 20 | Whether you agree or disagree with what they do , you have to accept that they 've worked out a very complicated system of values . |
| 21 | Officials said that they hoped to work out a schedule of repayments by the end of the year . |
| 22 | For single women especially , who may feel that they have to give up a career , knowing what facilities are available could prove a veritable godsend . |
| 23 | However , the evaluators are not satisfied that they have built up a picture of library use which permits them to be confident in drawing firm conclusions about the project 's success in these terms . |
| 24 | And their third album , which is actually untitled , should do even better now that they have notched up a few hit singles to go along with the hit album . |
| 25 | The Commission observed that it was held in the order of 10 October 1989 in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case 246/89 R ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 3125 that it had made out a prima facie case for its view on the nationality requirements . |
| 26 | A Polisario communique of Dec. 3 claimed that it had carried out a total of 23 assaults on the Moroccan defence wall between Nov. 2 and Nov. 23 , although it gave no details of casualties . |
| 27 | One notable absentee at the party was IBM Corp , but the company insisted that it had put out a release — it simply failed to get to us by close of page . |
| 28 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) announced on Sept. 3 that it had set up a short-term technical advice scheme for the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | On Nov. 18 Libya announced that it had set up a judicial inquiry to investigate the allegations . |
| 30 | Welcoming the vote on Dec. 16 , Israel 's President , Chaim Herzog , said that it had wiped out a " shameful blot upon [ Israel 's ] good name " . |